Wortham v. Karstadtquelle AG

OPINION

BASSLER, District Judge.

This action is before the Court as part of Multi-District Litigation Docket No. 1337, In re Holocaust Era German Industry, Bank, and Insurance Litigation. Plaintiffs Martin G. Wortham and Barbara Principe instituted the action in the Southern District of New York, Civil Action No. 01-2741(LAP), the district in which the alleged predecessors of the current defendant companies allegedly committed the tort of fraud in 1951 against Günther Wortham (f/k/a Günther Wertheim), the father of plaintiff Principe and grandfather of plaintiff Wortham. On the motion of…